> wy UNCLE SAM'S ARMY. FROM A MILITARY STANDPOINT IT NUMBERS €¢,5600,000, Strongest of all Nations. -Germany Comes Next with About Five and a Half Millions--Other European Armies. Your Unele Sam is a big man from a military point of view. He may not have many soldiers under arms now, and only a bare 100,000 militia- men in training, but all the same he is reckoned one of the powers of the earth. Military gauge the war strength of a nation by the num- ber of men available for its army, Independent of the final limit, which must, of be the actual num- ber of men in the country, this num- ber is arrived at by examini laws of the country : to say, some countries tary only be ages, exports i COUrse, itself. re jul service tween others require it only for three years of a man’s life, and that his bearing with himself: others, expect upon this met United States because man {0 yd of cal every Cisse he is Thus it and lo) numl I'his vast head ud rer The 75.000 1 for thirty nished within in addit That was fr United State tion ab Cause were Should On SALIER ny emerges eri I Arzuin at tained two we ently oul =n tarism full get the is the standing a mill Gern the only of her populat little more ti This includes not only army now under arms, but are in the landwher and the res who may be called upon for t five years respectively. position in E he head of and dominant the Triple Al- lianes has compelled this tremen- dous sacrifice to the possibility of war, and every man who allegiance to the Kaiser and is more than twenty-one years of age, has served, or is now serving, in the army or in the landwher or reserves, France is the great military con- trast to Germany, just as she bound at some future time, perhaps not far distant, to face her on the world’s greatest battlefield. Her soldiers are estimated at 8.750,000 They include the active and the re- tired men, as well as the vast body who have passed through both periods of service. They are trained to perfection, ready in 8 moment, overflowing with patriotism and im- bued with one passion-—revenge on the Germans. France's new ally, Russia, long supposed to be the most powerful of continental countries, can put 8,200. 000 soldiers in the field. This esti- mate is of course based upon the laws that govern and the population of what is known as Russia in Ea. rope. Xot even the Czar or his most trusted counselor can give anything like an accurate estimate of the hordes of barbarians on the Siberia and Trans-Ural country who would follow his standard in case of war. On the other hand, Russia's army on a peace footing is the largest of any. | It numbers 707,000. England's military strength is dargely problema eal. On the face of her laws and the population of | most of her | those who rves hree and Germany's gives his is ited with the ability to put into the field 650,000 men, Of course this takes no consideration of her popu- lous and wealthy ealonies. They are not considered, beenuse as a factorin war their value is not known. Many able writers on the art of war and diplomats of skill and acuteness have believed that colonies source of weakness. It sure that in ense of a great war Eng- land would be COM pe ilad to do for India than Indian could do for England. rom a militar standpoint the Engli Army less importance as a factor than English Navy. her to her soldiers Engl: ar Seams nimost nore or gnilors and not looks for glory and t1 he great strugvle shou Motus of the Himalaya ships wi would win trick the wagon fa The man was thrown wi int lar t of the engine, y the girand pride torn to The wagon was and the hos $ cvs 1 we 1! 3 thrown loose, went galloping at splinters, g fail speed down the road. When the train was stopped, the man was brought into my car and laid out, we tl that he was dead. and started to wash the blood his face. Assoon as the cold water struck his face, he opened his eyes and asked: ** Where is my team?” At the next station he was taken off and examined by a physician, found that he was not hurt at all, and in less than half an hour he walked away and got his horses, neither of which was hurt to any ex- tent,”” I took some water from whe No Life in Mummy Wheat. An experiment on Lord Winchii. gea’s “* Cable" farm has just decided the oft-mooted question whether or not the mummy wheat found in the Egyptian tombs really possesses the germs of life, A few months ago Lord Sheflield, on his return from Egypt, gave Lord Winehilsea a hand. he had himsell taken from a sarcophagus containing One hundred of those the experiment, but alter some weeks the seed were discovered to have rotted awn {London Dally Nowa. Transfer “compan lew r n England are ready to pay for the baggage | #7 ish, New York's New Clearing House, The home House fitting delivered, the prayer, and the address was delivered by Mr. Gi. Wil- linms, the presi of the Clearing House One hundred and fifty leading bankers were sont, stone of the new York 1aid dishop Potter foundation of was recently the New Clearing with be- ceremonies, (ico, ent Association. pre- EE 4 ' SL \3 \2 i La Hy WW hile tortnise 3 ipped to the his head had been Presently, in gonist, the rat stood with his hind in front of the place where the tortoise’s head this was lay feet ground, while drawn in out of si for in a second the head and Jegs. When the rat felt the the not at his enemy's head, but had withdrawn move the tortoise an atom, It then minute, when it broke away, but with if cut with a knife. The rat bled to denth, After this battle almost every day a similar one occurred. Sometimes the rata double-teamed on the scaly gladiator, but the result was always the same--n leg amputation, a tail abbreviated, a disk of hide and flesh cleanly eleft, or an almost severed neck always ended the battle. The clerks and young fellows enjoyed the unique departure in sport, and when. ever a battle was on they filled the be treated as a frieze, nnd into panels by four figures vanel nations’ freely the rooms, will twenty feet making the total height of the building seventy feet. The the four columns facade, of stone feet hich and nine feet wide divided supporting the cornice, each to bear carvings of the state ana city emblems, forated 10 The tower above this, NO ns Hgnt dome entrances will be outside of forming the lower seventeen The massive sili hae LP £ ol -~ CKs, a8 they erooked, top of a hot whieh the sticks inti! they are pliable. The workman takes crooked stick while it is yet hot, and inserts it in a notch eut in a stout board, placed at an angle inclined from him, where he bends and strains it. When it has become perfectly straight it is thrown down to cool, after whieh it becomes rigid and permanent in its lines. The same power which makes a crooked stick straight is applied to make a straight crooked. All the various kinds of sticks that are required to be curled or twisted are by the application of heat made to assume any shape or form.’ {St Louis Globe~Democrat. the one A Record- Breaking Trip. An engine drawing the Empire State express, on the New York Cen tral, is said to have run 8.848 miles at a speed of fifty and one<half miles an hour during July, on a coal con- This is very small, in- deed. On July 24th, the same engine ran from Syracuse to Albany, 148 miles, in 144 mindtes, and stopped three minutes at Utica, making the average rate of speed while running, 02.98 miles an hour. Between Utica and Albany it ran ninety-five miles in ninety minutes, or at the rate of 63.88 miles an hour {Atlanta Con- stitution. Salt eatarncte are found in Nore way, Southern Chile and British Col. umbia. ; La | tribal relations of the Indians are becoming less binding, and the vid Indians are becoming independer £ of ribs and i r #0 reliant, The allottin of the government have NOTES AND COMMENTS. ——— indie ries i Las nore Too little advertising is like sowing too little seed A farmer in sowing grain puts a number of seeds each hill, 8 satisfied j healthy stalk comes from each plant. | p ing. ’ It is sal will be | teigutograph into g ageniys g y t ert ana i 7k of the if one been Kk r tho ' Year, sf yy 1 v ¢1 vinocing «ds HE NAY ires 1o innd. in all of the large cities on the g Of course fi certain at : 4 { A 4 6 Litre nL one an vile B He vin ny apa hour and minute when all in the As in exist this involves rt lines are ernment. is actually try, to be no v der to make it international the extension Comparisons are g Liiere is y L114 fi pel B00 G0 gration appears to be In rather than the contrary, 3 Renard, Aerostatic De- WM : Ave Capt. partment, at Chalais-Meudon, has nearly completed dirigible called the General Mensnler which is desigried to keep up a speed of about 25 miles an hour for 10 hours. The balloon proper 250 feet long and has a capacity of 120. 000 cubic feet, It is driven by a very light gasoline engine operating a pro- peller wheel, nearly 80 feet in diame- ter, at 200 revolutions a minute. If this balloon is a success it will be a quite important matter, for the caris 180 feet long and can carry a com- paratively large number of men, Some interesting experiments have al- 80 been made in France with an ordin- ary balloon fitted with a small screw placed horizontally, to produce mo- tion in a vertical direction, so as to avoid the usual wasteful process of | discharging gas and sand alternately. The screw is seven and one-half feet| 14 js reported that an attempt was in diameter, and by means of light | made the other night to hold up a hand machinery it could be revolved | ¢solley car not far from New York at the rate of 100 revolutions a min. City. "It was on one of the short ate. By this apparatus the balloon, | jines running out of Jersey City of 28,000 cubic feet capacity, would jy gn neighborhood described as be raised about 825 feet in a minute. | “dark and desolate.” There was a General Armstrong, acting com. | sharp fight for a few minutes, and missioner of Indian affairs, says that | the robbers were driven off. It is the annual reports received from the | suggested that the incident presents various Indian agencies show that an opportunity to investigators to on the whole the Indians were roa | devise some means of making the sonably prosperous during the last | tremendous current of electricity fiscal year. The death rate has not | which the trolley ear has always been large, nor does there appear to available, a means of defense in be any decrease in the number of such circomstances. A stream Indians in the charge of the govern: of water thrown, say by cone ment. The year was one of peace, hued carbonic acid, and connected there having been very few distur | with the trolley apparatus, would bancos or troubles usually oceurring | knock out any assailant of the among the the Indiacs. It isevident, lear in short ordes—{New Orles:s trom the reports received, that Pleayune. fuil diagnosis Of the lu prognosis were against that kind of disease skill was powerless, “In conclusion she described the end of the patient in the usual Latin terminology Immediately after wards she fell back senseless, utter ing a piercing shriek. ‘1 at once had recourse to conceivable means for bringing her to consciousness, bat all in vain. Within eight minutes her pulse be- gan to fail and death shortiy fol lowed.,”” eo According to the post-mortem ex- amination the immediate cause of death was concussion of the brain. 4 iATCe {14 very unfavorabils medical gs, and is every An Electric Gun Needed.
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